25.7.12

George Hunka on one of Beckett's 1980s television plays

Samuel Beckett, Nacht und Träume (1982)

George Hunka has posted a link to Samuel Beckett's Nacht und Träume, a television play made in Germany in 1982: 'Among the plays from Beckett’s final decade was the 1982 Nacht und Träume, an intimate and quiet piece that nonetheless is Webernian in its emotional effect. It, like Beckett’s other television plays, is extremely difficult to find; one wishes that some enterprising distributor would collect these on a DVD, as the British Library collected the radio plays a few years back. Below, however, is the play as I found it on YouTube. While the logo in the top left of the screen is disconcerting when watching the play, I offer the production here due to its rarity outside academic collections. The play is best viewed in full-screen mode (click on the box in the extreme lower-right corner of the player, which is available once you begin playing the video).' [Watch]